homework, etc

hi guys

here are some links from thursday's conversation:
rand corporation
fred wilson on art 21

building as body (installation at university of southern maine) website
building as body class blog

you should check out this artist:
mark dion
we talked about his
tate thames dig
but i think you'd like a lot of his work. some other artists whose installations you should check out include:
olafur eliasson
check out this show, becoming animal, at mass moca
i think you'll like sam easterson's movies he makes by strapping cameras to buffalos.

also for more animal/art/natural science, check out:
tim hawkinson
bill burns
critial art ensemble/beatriz de costa

ok, this is the homework for next week:
-read the fred wilson article and think about the display conventions people in the class reported on last week, ie, how the lighting at tiffany's contributes to the sense of value and uniqueness, how "magik" uses smells and sounds to create a sense of altered reality. chose an object that has personal meaning to you, may be a keepsake or something you made, and make 3 propsals for ways you could display it to change the viewer's interpretation of the object's meaning.

like wilson in his project "rooms with a view: the struggle between cultural content and the context of art," i want you to really consider how different conventions of display influence our sense of the meaning, value, function, origin, etc of the object. the 3 ideas are essentially proposals for a work that will be completed by the viewer: your installation is successful if the audience is so convinced by the context that they believe the new meaning of the object.

the proposals can be for installations you can't actually execute- ie, they can require resources or fabrication skills that are not actually available to us, feel free to brainstorm- but they should be ideas you'd really like to relize in public space. in class next week, we will discuss the propsals and generate some ideas for recontextualized objects that we will actually execute for feb. 26.

also, please read brian odoherty's article "nots on the gallery space" from inside the white cube, be prepared to discuss. continue to look for orphan spaces, and check out gordon matta clark's fake estates

for thursday, you should bring images of more orphan spaces you've found on campus, and digital and printed copies of your 3 proposals. also, bring paper and stuff to draw with. email me if you have questions, and think about whether you are free to go on a field trip to providence on sat feb 21
thanks
-deborah